Jerrick Liu

MechMania bot

In a 24 hour A.I. hackathon hosted by MechMania and ACM@UIUC in their annual Reflections Projections event, me and three other members created a game bot in Python that would play in a MMO world designed by MechMania

I helped develop the game algorithms and heursitics in Python that helped our team win 2nd place overall at the hackathon. (We all got Nintendo switches!)

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IntuiTeach

In a week long virtual hackathon, me and three other members created IntuiTeach, a web app paired with Zoom that allows teachers to write questions about a certain lecture they are going to have and as a vide lecture progresses, the teacher is able to pose live questions throughout the call. IntuiTeach also promotes online engagement of younger learners with our reward system.

I helped developed the backend API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB to store necessary data for our web app

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A.I. agent learns to play Minecraft

Using Tensorflow and reinforcment learning algorithms such as proximal policy optimization (PPO), I was able to train up an RL agent to chop trees in Minecraft

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Military vehicle classification and GradCAM

Through using supervised learning, I was able to train CNNs to classify 18 different classes of military vehicles. I also used GradCAM, an explainable AI technique used to visualize where the CNN is looking at in an image. To the left, I ran the GradCAM code on an image of myself! Pretty cool!

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Pacman

I built Pacman from scratch using C++ and the Cinder GUI library.

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Naive Bayes Classifier

I coded a Naive Bayes Classifier from scratch in C++ to classify handwritten digits drawn with Cinder!

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Ideal Gas Simulator

I created an Ideal Gas Simulator in C++ and Cinder that has accurate physics to resemble gas particles in an ideal gas environment.

There are also real-time histograms that display information about the particles speed in relation to their mass.

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UIUC FAQ Webscraper

Due to the rise of COVID-19, what's happening with attending college at UIUC is very uncertain for me. I constantly want to stay updated, so I built a webscraper using Python and BeautifulSoup to scrap UIUC's FAQ page for all the questions and it sends me an email if there is a new question posted!

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Pong

Used the Python library Kivy to build the classic game of Pong using a GUI.

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Flappy Bird

Python script to run the classic mobile game Flappy Bird using Pygame

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Face detector

Using Python's computer vision library OpenCV2, this python script is able to learn multiple faces and recognize faces in images or through video!

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Mask generator

Utilized Python's OpenCV2's thresholding functions to generate masks for images. This script is really helpful for generating more data for supervised learning!

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